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We have similar websites in different countries (it's an ecommerce site). Some times, those websites share the same language and, for example, people from Mexico end up in a page from our website in Argentina. Therefore they see our products in their language buy in a foreign currency.

We would like to show them a pop-up (like a shadowbox) depending on their IP to allow them to go to their local website. There wouldn't be any redirect.

Would that affect our rankings in any way? Would Googlebots see that as well?

Thanks!

Wow! Thanks for this answer! But I still have one doubt: if an affiliate gives me a mix of affiliate links and clean links, would the clean links still count?

Hi, I have been reading about affiliate links - links with a tracking code in the URL (i.e.: www.xxx.com/?aff=123456) and I can't find a definitive answer. Does Google count them as natural links or maybe they do not even pass any link juice?

And if they don't, what if I get a natural link from a website (without tracking code) and later that website becomes my affiliate? Would the first link still count?

I guess that there can't be any certainty about all this, but I would love to know your expert opinions

Thanks!

Hi from Madrid!

I am managing the Marketing Department of a ticketing site in Europe similar to Stubhub.com. We have thousands of events and, until now, we used templates for their descriptions. A lot of events share the same description with minor changes. They also have a lot of tickets on sale, so that's unique content different on each event.

Now the last Google Panda update hit Europe and I was wondering if that will affect us a lot. It's hard to tell for now, because we are in the middle of the summer and the volume of searches in our industry depends decreases a lot during this time of the year.

I know that ideally we should have unique descriptions but that would need a lot of resources and they are not important for our users: they just want to know the venue, the time and the price of the tickets!

Have you experienced something about Google Panda update with a similar site or with another e-commerce industry?

Thanks!

We are launching our site in Russia - and basically I have no experience in Russian SEO! Could you please recommend me some good English sources with news, tips and hints about Yandex? Basically I am looking the Russian SEOmoz

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Hi Bob!

When I'm trying to get a link from a website and there's no contact email or form - or even a name, I WHOIS the domain (with who.is for instance). If it's a small site, it's likely that the same person who is managing the page registered the domain, so you can see his/her personal data: name, email and hopefully even a phone number.

Hope this helps!

Jorge

Hi!

Could you please recommend me a good and deep article about best practises in internal linking structure? I need to rethink the structure of a big site (lucky me it's very hierarchical) and I would like to have a look at some great articles about this to consolidate some ideas and have some new ones.

I've read some but I would like some recommendations

Some articles about information architecture would be appreciated as well!

Thanks!

Hi, I am looking for a good link building agency or freelance to execute a link building strategy for the next months. The content is in Spanish.

Could anyone recommend me a good agency or a good link builder for Spanish content?

Thank you very much!

Jorge

But are we losing link juice without using the canonical tags right now?

Hi!

I am not very familiar with the canonical tag. The thing is that we are getting traffic and links from affiliates. The affiliates links add something like this to the code of our URL:

www.mydomain.com/category/product-page?afl=XXXXXX

At this moment we have almost 2,000 pages indexed with that code at the end of the URL. So they are all duplicated.

My other concern is that I don't know if those affilate links are giving us some link juice or not. I mean, if an original product page has 30 links and the affiliates copies have 15 more... are all those links being counted together by Google? Or are we losing all the juice from the affiliates?

Can I fix all this with the canonical tag?

Thanks!

Thanks!

Indeed we are ranking very well in the US but not in the UK! Actually I wasn't right: the site is a few months old but we just started to get links for it.

Hi,

We are trying to position a specific site for a big sport event that will be played at the end of May. We only care about Google UK. It had no relevant content until last week.

The site is a almost a year old but we just started to get links for it (all from the UK). They worked so fast: we were in page 2 of SERPs in the UK within a few days. But suddenly the site has disappeared and we're not even in top 100 anymore. However, we are ranking extremely well in the US (first page for the keywords we wanted to rank for).

The site is a .com and it's hosted in Wordpress.com (with a custom URL). I understand that that can be a problem, but we have already told Google that our business is in the UK through Webmaster Tools.

I guess that with time and more UK links, Google would ultimately understand that our focus is the UK audience, but unfortunately we have no time and we can't wait due to the date of the sport event.

What do you think that we can do to rank well in the UK and not in the US as fast as possible?

Thanks!

Thanks! I've checked their website and I saw that they only work with long-term projects, rather than this kind of short-term things. Should I try to contact them anyways?